Jonathan Roberts Paddock and John Torrey correspondence, 1838-1840

by: Paddock, Jonathan Roberts, 1803-1878

Publication date: 1838

Topics: Botanical specimens, Cardamine, Cyperaceae, Paddock, Jonathan Roberts, 1803-1878 -- Correspondence, Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence, Gray, Asa, 1810-1888, Samples, John, -1842, Sullivant, William Starling, 1803-1873

Collection: biodiversity; nybgtorrey; NY_Botanical_Garden

Digitizing sponsor: NEH PW-234827-16

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

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Correspondence from Jonathan Roberts Paddock to John Torrey, dated 1838-1840, discussing plant specimens received from and sent to Torrey via friends and associates like Dr. R.P. Catley, Captain L. Hayes, "Mr. Moore," "Mr. Comstock," "Mr. Whitney," "Dr. Day," and Dr. N.W.M. McClelland; and volumes of Torrey's "Flora," with which he pronounces himself "well pleased."

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

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Abstract: Correspondence from Jonathan Roberts Paddock to John Torrey, dated 1838-1840, discussing plant specimens received from and sent to Torrey via friends and associates like Dr. R.P. Catley, Captain L. Hayes, 'Mr. Moore,' 'Mr. Comstock,' 'Mr. Whitney,' 'Dr. Day,' and Dr. N.W.M. McClelland; and volumes of Torrey's 'Flora,' with which he pronounces himself 'well pleased.'